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Ikaeniyan0:
It won't be decided base on European tournaments alone

Very few privilege people will be selected around the world to vote.

I see Halaand wining it though. He deserve it but Messi shouldn't be write-off. What he did at the world cup with his teammates is not an easy feat.

Lionel Messi, Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé lead the 12-player shortlist for FIFA's The Best Men's Player nominees, with England midfielder Declan Rice also nominated after captaining former club West Ham United to Europa Conference League success

Argentina captain Messi, now playing for MLS side Inter Miami, is aiming to win the award for a record third time having been given the honour in 2019 and 2022.

But despite helping Argentina to World Cup glory at Qatar 2022, Messi faces stiff competition from Manchester City forward Haaland after the Norway international scored 52 goals as Pep Guardiola's side completed a Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup treble last season.

Julián Álvarez, Marcelo Brozovic, Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gündogan, Rodri, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Victor Osimhen and Bernardo Silva make up the shortlist alongside Messi, Haaland, Mbappe and Rice.

Spain, who won the Women's World Cup for the first time in Australia last month, have four players on the 12-name shortlist for women's award with Aitana Bonmatí, Jenni Hermoso, Mapi León and Salma Paralluelo all in the race to succeed La Roja midfielder Alexia Putellas by winning the trophy.

Linda Caicedo, Rachel Daly, Kadidiatou Diani, Caitlin Foord, Mary Fowler, Alex Greenwood, Amanda Ilestedt, Lauren James, Sam Kerr, Hinata Miyazawa and Keira Walsh are also nominated, with Lindsey Horan the only United States player making it onto the shortlist.

Voting for the eighth annual awards opened on Thursday on FIFA.com and closes in mid-October. National team coaches, captains, journalists and fans make up the list of voters.

azpekuliar:
I am satisfied with the list as long as Messi is number 1 on it. The remaining names on the list can appear in whatever order the author so desires.

A fan has stirred up the biggest controversy in football from an Argentine since the 'Hand of God' itself with mind-boggling rankings dished out to some beloved legends.

A supposed list of the 100 best footballers in history has sparked mass hysteria on social media.

Little known Instagram account Gol del Corazon woke up and chose violence this week by ranking the greatest players ever. It was no easy task for the Argentina fan behind the account, though there were certainly some eye-catching rankings involved.

HIS DECISION TO RATE LIONEL MESSI AS THE GREATEST EVER, WHILE CAUSING SOME DEBATE, WAS UNLIKELY TO CAUSE MUCH GRIEF FOLLOWING HIS WORLD CUP VICTORY LAST YEAR.

But there were some truly rogue shouts that caused an uproar online as the post was shared by a prominent Argentine football journalist, going on to receive millions of views.

Among the baffling placements were Angel Di Maria’s inclusion at 17, along with Thomas Muller at 27, Manchester United flop Diego Forlan at 46 and Antoine Griezmann, who is yet to win La Liga, at 48


Already a World Cup legend, Kylian Mbappe was way down in 86, while five-time Champions League winner Gareth Bale sat in a lowly 69. Among the other decisions that grated fans was Arsenal and France legend Thierry Henry at a mere 58, Liverpool and England icon Steven Gerrard at 82 - 15 places behind Manchester United rival Paul Scholes - and Zinedine Zidane controversially left out of the top 10 altogether.


One Twitter user fumed: “Thierry Henry at 58, you must be joking..” while another tweeted: “The only position they got right is number 1. All others, very wrong.”

A third vented: “Di Maria above Ronaldinho I’m laughing blood,” while a fourth added: “This is the worst list I’ve ever seen.”

A fifth angry fan pointed out: “Probably a group of secondary school students' assignment to list the names of 100 players they know.” While a sixth added: "Scholes 67 and Gerrard 82, weren’t even a week ago Scholes himself was saying Gerrard is better."

NAC1666:
With due respect ma. Your son was the person who first disgrace man united fans in my area first.

nerdjared:
No mind the Ngozi fc fan na ozuo

lexxyrule:
He's 5'11 tall. Normal coffin would fit well, they are just wicked

Lamasta:
Dont mind Kyase, Ray07 and Fergie001 I can see them among Onana choir

Akanoaaa:
That's not good enough bro. The dude work hard for his money when he was alive and that was the last thing he body can benefit from his money. At least, everybody deserves last respect.

lexy2014:
This is pretty. Will u be living with them in the house?

Dididrumz:
If you don't believe in other lifeforms then that's your business.

Aliens exist.

ROME -- A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, overwhelmed a tiny southern Italian island on Wednesday, taxing the coast guard's capability to intercept the smugglers' vessels and testing Premier Giorgia Meloni's pledge to thwart irregular migration.

Compounding the political pressure on Italy's first post-war far-right leader were vows by France and Germany to rebuff migrants who arrive by sea on Italian shores, and, in defiance of European Union asylum system rules, head northward to try to find jobs or relatives

Starting early Tuesday, the unseaworthy, overcrowded iron boats, came one after the other in what appeared to be almost a procession to onlookers on Lampedusa, a fishing and tourist island south of Sicily. Around 6,800 migrants came in a span of just over 24 hours — that number is a few hundred higher than the isle's full-time population.

With Lampedusa-based Italian coast guard and border patrol boat unable to intercept all of the smugglers' boats offshore, dozens of migrants temporarily eluded authorities by climbing up Lampedusa’s rocky shores on their own.

When the coast guard tried to assist one boat early Wednesday, the smugglers' vessel tipped over, and a mother with her five-month-old baby fell into the sea, Italian Rai state TV said, reporting from Lampedusa. The woman, who is from Guinea, was rescued, in shock, but the baby died, Rai said.

Provoking the increase in numbers was a bottleneck in Tunisia's ports caused by rough seas that meant the smugglers hadn't been able to launch their boats for days, according to Italian authorities.

With the island's sole migrant residence having a capacity of about 450 beds, authorities scrambled to transfer the migrants via commercial ferries or coast guard vessels or planes to Sicily or in Calabria in the southern toes of the Italian mainland.

"Our aim is to transfer them as fast as possible,'' said Filippo Romano, the prefect of Agrigento, the province in Sicily which includes Lampedusa. He noted that on some days last month, more than 4,000 migrants stepped ashore, and authorities were able to transfer the people elsewhere, where their asylum requests can be initially processed.

According to the Interior Ministry, by early Wednesday morning, nearly 124,000 migrants have reached Italy by sea this year, roughly double the number by that time last year.

Italy saw the highest-ever number of sea arrivals in 2016, when some 181,400 migrants arrived, according to figures from the U.N. migration agency.


Meloni made stopping the arrivals a main plank of her successful campaign to win office almost a year ago.

While she initially advocated a naval blockade of northern Africa's Mediterranean shores to foil smugglers, once in office, Meloni shifted her focus to seeking deals with countries, notably Tunisia, where most of the boats are launched lately, to clamp down on migrant departures.

In June, Meloni joined European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a visit to Tunisia, holding out the promise of more than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in financial aid to rescue its teetering economy and better police its borders, in an effort to restore stability to the North African country — and to stem migration to European shores.

On Wednesday, von der Leyen said that the EU's determination to manage migration “needs endurance and patient work with key partners” and spoke proudly of the Tunisia partnership.

In a speech to the European Parliament, von der Leyen also spoke of the need for unity within the EU on migration.

But solidarity seemed to be fraying.

On Tuesday, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin visited the town of Menton to announce tough new measures, from policing to technological means like drones, aimed at stopping migrants from making their way from Italy to France. The presence of police and gendarmes will be doubled, 70 police reservists will be added, along with soldiers from the Sentinelle force that combs French cities against terror attacks.

Darmanin is sponsoring an immigration bill that appears to be aimed at responding to pressure from French right and far-right forces demanding get-tough policies on immigration.

In Berlin on Wednesday, an interior ministry spokesman, Maximilian Kall, said that Italy, as well as other EU states, aren't taking back asylum-seekers who made it to Germany, but who, under EU rules, are the responsibility of the first EU country where they set foot.

“Out of more than 12,400 takeover requests to Italy this year until the end of August, 10 transfers have taken place so far,'' Kall said, saying that's why Germany is temporarily suspending acceptance of asylum-seekers under a ”voluntary solidarity mechanism."

Meloni made no immediate comment about the increase in arrivals on Lampedusa, or the moves by France and Germany.

But opposition lawmakers in Italy did. It's Meloni's fault that "Italy today is isolated in Europe. Berlin and Paris are slamming the door in our face on immigration,'' said Sen. Dolores Bevilacqua, with the populist 5-Star Movement.

Meanwhile, once on land, many migrants head to border points with France, Switzerland or Austria, in hopes of reaching the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany or Scandinavia countries.

"They are really in need of food, medicine and shoes, clothes,'' Andrea Costa, head of Baobab Experience, a migrant assistance group, told The Associated Press at the way-station in Rome that the group runs.

Sprints3:
shut up don't be an idiot he spent over 1bn at city to rebrand his squad whereas others met or spent below. The closest to pep right now is arteta followed by ten hag then klopp always use ur sense b4 u spew ur dirty trash... For Chelsea boehly has been buying players for the coaches... But only pep guardiola is the only person in the EPL that takes charge of transfer no one is close. Klopp will have to send like 3 players for the same position writing epistle why Liverpool need a player for that position before FSG will consider if they like the player or not the same applies to Man utd only ten hag is lucky to tell united chiefs I want this and that. Infcat they have tired for idiot if he cannot deliver league this season he is fool.

frankson1:
When I said you should learn maturity, I meant it. What you did wasn't banter but outright insult.

frankson1:
You should 'learn' maturity.

budaatum:
I was about to promote your frontpagism then you went and spoilt it with your bad belleyism.

CJStarz:
Guy,you wicked 🤣

bigdawg7:
He is actually working with the ex girlfriend of his brother to send his brother to jail

Wealthoptulent:
this one no WISE
him allow kpekus dey control him life, come dey sell him family on IG

Akanoaaa:
His body is longer than the casket, so they broke his neck. Wicked people.

Popular disk jockey, Ayorinde Kehinde Okiki, popularly known as DJ Kaywise, has sent his fans into a state of panic with an Instagram post they think is indicating suicide.

On the afternoon of September 13, 2023, the record producer posted a cryptic message indicating that he is going to "end it all."

The tone carried a hint of exasperation as he stressed that he gave it his all. The post read, "I'll end it all by 9 pm tonight, I did my best."

The post has since sent his fans into a state of worry and they've taken to his comment section to appeal to the DJ not to make rash decisions. Others called for help, beckoning his family and friends to check in on him.

His fellow celebrities have also taken to his comment section in a haze of fear and panic, begging him to be strong.

DJ Kaywise has not responded to any of the comments and has not made any other posts since then.

This is a developing story.

Akeem79:
Then why the baby mama tag if they were married?

Gamesmart:
You got pregnant and had a child for a drughead?

Good luck, darling!

You have laid your bed.

Karemarealty288:
whatever ....there is still ugliness and wretchedness.